Over the last few
weeks I have been preaching on”The Lord’s Prayer,” and will continue to do so.
It will likely take me 12 services to complete. Please go to my YouTube channel
to watch the teachings. God’s Word is so rich!
It begins with,
“Our Father which art in Heaven…” Just this one line is so loaded! To begin
with, why is God called our Father?
1.
Even though Jesus
was God Himself, He became a Man, and as a Man, Jesus related to God as His
Father. God Himself experienced what it was like to be a Man and as a Man, He
experienced what it was like to interact with God. This is amazing!
2.
Also as Man, Jesus
had no earthly father, for Joseph was His adopted father, His guardian. Though
Jesus had eternally existed as God Himself, when He became a Man, God Himself
was His Father, no man was his father.
And Jesus thought us to pray The Lords Prayer.
When we pray, Our Father which art in Heaven, several dynamic truths are in play.
3.
We call God our
Father because He is the progenitor or our reborn spirit. Jesus said we must be
born again, or as the Greek reads, born from Heaven. This happens when we
accept Jesus and call upon the Name of the Lord to be saved. At this moment we
are born again. Jesus Christ (by the Holy Spirit) comes to dwell on the inside
of you and me. He miraculously and supernaturally causes your old sinful
fleshly nature to die, and your spirit-man is resurrected. Your receive
spiritual life, and you are born from above!
Now you enter the
Kingdom of God, begin to function by spiritual principles, as you grow in the
things of God.
When you say, Our
Father which art in Heaven, you are acknowledging God as your Spiritual
Progenitor, the One who caused you to be born from above, the One who gave life
to your inner man!
4.
Not only that, but
when you say, Our Father which art in Heaven, you are also making an appeal to
the caring nature of God. God cares
for you!